Mr Fitzgerald, you hate Democracy, we have established this, but you hate street-parties too? You hate carnivals? You hate the laughter of children and the smiles on their faces when they are given balloons.

By voting this way Mr Fitzgerald you oppose species rights, you oppose farmers, you oppose happiness and you oppose street parties. You are a tyrant Mr Fitzgerald, and I am personally glad the senate will never let you again near the engines of power, after your shameful and disasterous failiures to deal effectively with the Vjun affair, Lasergate, the Acherin Blockade and the Civil Unrest on Dantooine, you hardly deserve clothes on your back, let alone a seat in this chamber.

Senator Fitzgerald has done nothing except express his desire for history to not repeat itself. That hardly qualifies him as a tyrant, nor does that speak of his loyalty to the democracy. I agree with Senator Fitzgerald, again, and vote against your blatant disregard for freedom for all sentient beings.

Furthermore, I do hope that the other Senators in this chamber would agree with the sentiments of all that have spoken against you thus far. If anyone does not deserve a seat in this Senate, it is one who thinks that the enslavement of a species is alright based on their cruel and self-gratifying sadistic 'traditions'.

A twi'lek, as it is well known and accepted on Dantooine and throughout Hutt space is not a sentient being, while there maybe a disagreement here, it is a consensus on dozens of worlds.

I call upon the commission to be formed on this matter to discuss the matter of Twi'lek's sentience definatively and hear the scientific evidence for both sides impartially.

And if they are proven not to be sentient, then current slavery law already does not apply, thus I can go and claim my freehold, signed by their Monarch.

NO ONE has the right to judge another race as to their validity as a sentient species in this galaxy! And no one has the right to say that said race is to be sold into slavery for your personal purposes.

I am sorry that you feel the need to enslave and belittle the Twi Leks for your personal use and entertainment. I suppose that shows your character and the kind of being that you truly are.

Again, I am against this act, and the subsequent request for this ridiculous commission to be formed.

Now the looney liberal left starts harping on about saying we cannot declare things to be non-Sentient.

*he slipped the frog into his mouth, crunching it slowly so it screamed for a few seconds before it died*

Youl tell me next that a paddy frog is sentient? That we should not allow them to be eaten? Or that is its illiberal to herd nerfs?

Somewhere a line has to be drawn.

Gentlemen! Let us be civil here. It is an accepted fact that Twi'leks are sentient. If the honourable Senator has information to the contrary he must present it to the relevant academic authorities. As Senator Fitzgerald points out, the Senate is not the place nor this the time to be discussing which species are and are not sentient.

I will sustain your objection to current legislation to the level that it disagrees with your culture, and so perhaps the law needs to be re-evaluated in order to acomodate your culture (this will be the topic of discussion by the Judicial review, which will evaluate all law with respect to member species culture). The committee will not discuss the sentience of one species or another, there are already academic and independant standards on this issue, and I do not intend to change them.

But I must highlight that when legislating we must always judge first what is right, and only then discuss cultural issues.

Right is like gold, immutable, whatever else it may be it is still Gold.

Species rights...Species Rights...SPECIES RIGHTS!!! YOU ARE SUBMITTING A BILL THAT IS AN ATTEMPT TO LEGALIZE SLAVERY AND CALLS MY PEOPLE NON-SENTIENT!!! HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF SPECIES RIGHTS!!!

I apoligize for that outburst, but this is the most outrageous bill I have seen in my time in this Senate, nearly a decade. And I will not stand for the Twi'lek people...citizens of the New Republic...be enslaved nor be called non-Sentient. Slavery is never permissable...neither is the revokation of Rights of Sentience...my people and our homeworld of Ryloth has suffered for millenia under the Hutts...and now that we have our freedom, I, unlike my predecessors in the Old Republic, will not sit by and allow the continued enslavery and oppression of my people. No commission should be set up...no re-evaluation of laws... my people and homeworld are free...and we will fight to free those not enjoying the liberties we have finally obtained and to keep said liberties...at any cost...against absolutely anyone who will attempt to take it away. I vote AGAINST this legislation with absolutely everything in my being...and representing every Twi'lek in this galaxy...

It is a sad day when the New Republic has legislation on the floor that even has a hint of consideration of legalizing slavery or revoking Rights of Sentience from a species. If that day is truely here...then harsh words are surely to be chanted that I know this chamber DOES NOT want to hear.

As for the Senator of Dantooine...I have one piece of advice for your people. Adapt. Twi'leks have adapted to freedom rather well...I think your people can get used to not having use in chains rather well too.